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never have been, nor do we wish to be. Neither do we 

 desire that foreign nations shall have anything to do with 

 controlling our own circulating medium. For the very 

 reason that this money will not circulate abroad, we will 

 always have it at home. It is like a good dog, the closer 

 it stays at home the more useful it is. 



By being able to keep our currency at home, we can 

 preserve a uniform volume of circulating medium. If it 

 would go abroad the volume of money would be subject to 

 fluctuation contraction and expansion. This is one of 

 the greatest objections to gold and silver. It leaves us 

 when we most need it. It goes abroad, not as money 

 however, but as bullion, as a commodity; and like beef 

 and pork or any other commodity, goes for what it is worth 

 by weight, and at the market price then ruling. If the 

 American traveler wishes to visit on the Continent, he does 

 not provide himself with the money of his own country, 

 but deposits his money of whatever form it may be 

 paper in an American bank, and takes a draft or letters 

 of credit on some foreign bank. When he arrives in 

 England he must provide himself with the money of that 

 country, pounds, shillings and pence. In France he must 

 have napoleans and francs; in Germany, the thaler and 

 florin; in Sweden, the ducat and rix dollar; in Russia, the 

 rouble. And so in almost every country or nation, he 

 must have a different form of money. 



There is no such thing as u money of the world," 

 as we frequently hear it applied to gold and silver. These 

 metals are recognized by the different nations as a commod- 

 ity, and a material out of which money is made, and as 

 having a commercial value in the markets of the world, 

 but the money of one nation is seldom recognized as the 

 money of some other nation. If there is any such thing 

 as God's money it is not one that is calculated to rob labor 

 of its just reward, and bring starvation and ruin to millions 



